I don't know if you had a chance to read my piece. The movie doesn't avoid "rot within the leadership" but frames it differently, probably for a lot of different reasons.
Plus, the comic was inspired by movies, most notably Three Kings, so this is more about how these stories get told and what kind of content results from whatever productorial decisions are made for whatever reason.
The concept of Hollywood SOP is in some ways useful, but in other ways used to pre-judge adaptations. Obviously, Hollywood is a business, so it does things in certain ways.
Not to put words in your mouth, but it seems that asking whether the movie was a result of "just" Hollywood SOP relies on a notion that Hollywood can never do justice to source material. However, that is a fairly categorial statement and doesn't take into account that different media have different metaphorical vocabulary and grammar, so the resulting expressions aren't going to be exactly the same. The most obvious example is the task of squeezing many hours worth of reading into a two-hour frame. It's just not going to be the same experience, and some of the compression may result in a different spin on the main story.
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Date: 2010-06-11 01:52 am (UTC)Plus, the comic was inspired by movies, most notably Three Kings, so this is more about how these stories get told and what kind of content results from whatever productorial decisions are made for whatever reason.
The concept of Hollywood SOP is in some ways useful, but in other ways used to pre-judge adaptations. Obviously, Hollywood is a business, so it does things in certain ways.
Not to put words in your mouth, but it seems that asking whether the movie was a result of "just" Hollywood SOP relies on a notion that Hollywood can never do justice to source material. However, that is a fairly categorial statement and doesn't take into account that different media have different metaphorical vocabulary and grammar, so the resulting expressions aren't going to be exactly the same. The most obvious example is the task of squeezing many hours worth of reading into a two-hour frame. It's just not going to be the same experience, and some of the compression may result in a different spin on the main story.